Donahue Vanderhider is a professional Gerontologist.  He is an alumni of the University of Southern California with a Master's in Gerontology and a University degree in Psychology. He has post-graduate training in Hypnotherapy, Neurolinguistic Programming and Metaphysics. He is on advisory boards for the Alzheimer’s Association and the YMCA, and does extensive public speaking on the topics of Aging, Dementia, Caregiving and Stress Management with over 11 years of experience in both professional and scholastic achievements.
 

Vanderhider's extensive knowledge gives him the opportunity to assist and change the current state of gerontology with a focus of Alzheimer’s disease.  Considered as one of top professionals on the forefront of the "Age Wave", he exposes the extensive need and lack of support of the people caring for our loved ones. Donahue devotes himself to finding realistic and inexpensive tools and techniques for caregivers to control and eliminate their stress levels without sacrificing their personal commitments to their loved ones.

As the only Gerontologist with Hypnotherapy credentials on the West Coast, he was singled out to create stress management, guided imagery tools for caregivers by the Los Angeles County Area on Aging and the prestigious L.A. Caregiver Resource Center. From that collaboration, Mr. Vanderhider distilled his stress management program in to a single CD that any caregiver could use and receive immediate as well as long-term stress relief. Mr. Vanderhider is available for public speaking and has developed a Caregiver Coaching Practice. Modeled on life coaching principles but tailored for the unique circumstances of caregivers, he has individual clients that he talks to on a one-on-one basis.